Repair or improve your NES

There’s a warm place in our hearts for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s too bad we don’t have that hardware sitting around anymore. But if you do there’s a chance it needs some TLC and there’s always room for a blue LED mod. [Raph] has a wonderful collection of NES hardware repairs and hacks that you should take a look at. These include replacing the power supply, fixing the cartridge connector, monkeying with the CIC chip, adding a reset button on the controller, converting the audio from mono to stereo, and yes, swapping in a blue LED. Oh, and as a side note, [Raph] gets a bit of extra hacker ‘cred for including “coded manually using VIM” at the bottom of his page. Classic.

I think the blue light looks damn good! Actually I’m having trouble in seeing how this mod does not fit and I think figured it out… You are just a very, plain and simple, fucking stupid person who talks shit for the sake of you being stupid. I’ll even bet that you think you’re smart. Pretty sure everyone on here likes this except you, and the blue light doesn’t look like it fits any differently than the red besides originality based on what you’re used to. Now a lot of people fear change and that’s okay, you just have to learn to grow up and get passed the little bitchness in negatively commenting on things that people are trying inspire others with and are proud of. You fear the blue light. You’re scared of it. But only because it wasn’t you that thought of it. I’ll bet that if you had come up with it, you’d be basking in the jizz of all the people giving you credit. I’m sure that if Nintendo had made their original console with a blue light instead of a red one, then you’d be talking shit about the red light mod. Now tell us why that is? Why do you feel the need to troll on people that are doing cooler things than you? Is it that they did it first and you wish you were getting credit? Well whatever it is, at least everyone on here can see that you’re a bitch, bitch.

I could buy a snes for as low as 50 USD. Hacking this would be much more fun than hacking an xbox or ps3. I hate that the new technology gets more and more complicated so only bitbrains can understand it anymore. Its no more fun to hack new phones and consoles not to mention to try to repair them, we rather throw them into the trash.

SNES,C64 and the others should release all their specifications for these abandonware hws with as much details that everyone could build one from scratch.

Everyone who uses blue leds for their mods needs to have their eyes stabbed out. blue leds are the equivalent of putting neon strips under your ricer car. you destroy the aesthetics by putting in something so glaring and unnecessary.

Blue LED’s are very aesthetically pleasing if done correctly. Personally, I run them on a low voltage with frosted plastic to give a nice soft blue glow, not the BRIGHT color they make when you run them around 3.2v.

@HackADay,
Why oh why do you make me tear apart everything dear to me? I know most things end in pure awesome, but still…

Does anyone else really want to add the cartridge hardware directly to the console with a larger chip and a flashing circuit built in? I’m thinking it would be a fun project to have a very original looking NES with perfect functionality… and not have to replace the game slot every few years.